The Legbar Thread!

[hammytammy]

i thought the were auto sexed at birth?

 

[GaryDean26]

Can anyone identify my Cream Legbar?

Miss Prissy is the Cream Legbar. She is the only one with a yellow beak, sex-linked barring, and a crest.


***edited to clarify "sex-linked Barring" since two of these do have autosomal barring which is quite different from what the cream legbar breed has.

 

[Newchickey]

Miss Prissy is the Cream Legbar. She is the only one with a yellow beak, sex-linked barring, and a crest.


***edited to clarify "sex-linked Barring" since two of these do have autosomal barring which is quite different from what the cream legbar breed has.

Thank you! That is what I was thinking

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Miss Prissy is the Cream Legbar.

X2. Pretty girls!

 

[hammytammy]

Probably you would love Cream Legbars if you want eggs and you were to get your stock from a line that performs well (Lays lots of blue eggs)--- I think it is the C line from Greenfire Farms - one of their first import lines. One of my hens is from that line and each day when I pick up her egg--- I tell her she is a treasure. Her egg size is 1.9 oz and that is just 1/10 oz short of 'large'. I would rather have daily that big....:O)


You should definitely look into this breed.

well, ok-
i did go get a 6 month old roo yesterday. (byc for sale) hes a riot!! ive never seen such a big comb and those Wattles! he actually has beard and mustache type feathers!
and cranky old man eyebrows!!

he took over "his" hen house Immediately.
no other roos except a young buff orp right now.
he went into the hens egglaying nest and was putting up a huge fuss and kicking things out, golfball, poo, some bedding. then
calmly got out as if to say, okay girls i got ya a nice nest ready for you
is this normal behavior like hes getting the nest set up for them?

very interesting times ahead!

i think hes gonna be a really good rooster.

 

[chicken pickin]

well, ok-
i did go get a 6 month old roo yesterday. (byc for sale) hes a riot!! ive never seen such a big comb and those Wattles! he actually has beard and mustache type feathers!
and cranky old man eyebrows!!

he took over "his" hen house Immediately.
no other roos except a young buff orp right now.
he went into the hens egglaying nest and was putting up a huge fuss and kicking things out, golfball, poo, some bedding. then
calmly got out as if to say, okay girls i got ya a nice nest ready for you
is this normal behavior like hes getting the nest set up for them?

very interesting times ahead!

i think hes gonna be a really good rooster.

Some of my roosters do that for my hens and pullets. I currently have some 20week old Spitzhauben and the rooster has been making a nest and calling the pullets to it and then he will lay there with them while they check it out. They haven't laid an egg yet but I suspect it will be soon.

Sounds like you might have the makings of a nice rooster. We would love to see pics of him.

 

[hammytammy]

I am a show person at heart ( dog, horses....etc. ), so it really bothers me when some doesn't strive for quality. I like the SOP and I like to know that I am doing right by a breed. You can feed good chickens as well as bad chickens and the SOP is there for a reason. Some standard are just for looks, but some are for the health of the bird.

See ya

ooooo

c,mon now, whoever heard of a bad bird!
my boys comb is Big and Floppy and What Wattles!!

 

[hammytammy]

Some of my roosters do that for my hens and pullets. I currently have some 20week old Spitzhauben and the rooster has been making a nest and calling the pullets to it and then he will lay there with them while they check it out. They haven't laid an egg yet but I suspect it will be soon.

Sounds like you might have the makings of a nice rooster. We would love to see pics of him.

ill make my son do pics for me, for crying out loud, i cant even put in an avatar!!

 

[Junibutt]

well, ok-
i did go get a 6 month old roo yesterday. (byc for sale) hes a riot!! ive never seen such a big comb and those Wattles! he actually has beard and mustache type feathers!
and cranky old man eyebrows!!

he took over "his" hen house Immediately.
no other roos except a young buff orp right now.
he went into the hens egglaying nest and was putting up a huge fuss and kicking things out, golfball, poo, some bedding. then
calmly got out as if to say, okay girls i got ya a nice nest ready for you
is this normal behavior like hes getting the nest set up for them?

very interesting times ahead!

i think hes gonna be a really good rooster.

Some of my roosters do that for my hens and pullets. I currently have some 20week old Spitzhauben and the rooster has been making a nest and calling the pullets to it and then he will lay there with them while they check it out. They haven't laid an egg yet but I suspect it will be soon.

Sounds like you might have the makings of a nice rooster. We would love to see pics of him.

I thought my cockerel was crazy. He has been doing that for a week or two now. Too bad the pullets are not as mature as he is, however the Brahma pullets have been responding to his calls, but they are a lot bigger than him and promptly kick him out or beat him up.

 

[hammytammy]

I thought my cockerel was crazy. He has been doing that for a week or two now. Too bad the pullets are not as mature as he is, however the Brahma pullets have been responding to his calls, but they are a lot bigger than him and promptly kick him out or beat him up.